The October issue of the UN-REDD Programme newsletter, featuring news on: five new countries that joined the UN-REDD Programme; the first regional consultation between indigenous peoples’ organizations from Asia and the Pacific and the UN-REDD Programme; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s request for funding of a Congo Basin approach for monitoring, reporting and [...]
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Meeting: UN-REDD Programme Asia and Pacific indigenous consultations
Posted in asia, global, news items, pacific islands, un-redd on 17 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
IIED Report: REDD and Payments for Ecosystem Services
Posted in africa, asia, assessment, carbon trading, global, iied, incentives, latin america, recent research on 22 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
Incentives to sustain forest ecosystem services: A review and lessons for REDD, Ivan Bond, Maryanne Grieg-Gran, Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Peter Hazlewood, Sven Wunder, Arild Angelsen. IIED (2009), 62 pages, isbn: 9781843697428
An assessment of the utility of payments for ecosystem services as a tool for REDD was commissioned by the Norwegian Minister for the Environment and International [...]
IIED Report: Novel approach to improving forest governance
Posted in africa, asia, assessment, iied, incentives on 31 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Evaluation of the work of the Forest Governance Learning Group 2005 – 2009 Tom Blomly, International Institute for Environment and Development, August 2009
Researchers working with forest community groups and policy makers in ten countries in Africa and Asia have developed a novel way to improve the flow of social and environmental benefits from tropical forests, [...]
News: Forest Dwellers Demand Role in REDD at IUCN Congress
Posted in africa, asia, carbon trading, funding, latin america, news items on 7 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
As Donors Rush to Conserve Tropical Forests to Slow Climate Change, Indigenous Leaders Predict ‘Devastation’ from Carbon Grabs in Name of Conservation
Forest Peoples Programme | 7 October 2008
As wealthy nations prepare to ramp up climate change investments in forest-rich, low-income countries, a leading group of tropical forest leaders and conservation experts warns that the world’s [...]
News: Indonesia continues tree-planting to absorb more carbon
Posted in asia, carbon trading on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
RI resumes tree-planting drive to absorb more carbon
Antara News | 25 July 2008
INDONESIA: Indonesia will continue its tree planting drive in order to recover its damaged forests, re-green its denuded land areas and help reduce global warming by providing homes for billions of tons of carbon sink. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono –who launched a nation-wide [...]
News: 14 countries selected for WB REDD funds
Posted in africa, asia, latin america, world bank on 31 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests
MongaBay | 24 July 2008
Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical forests under an innovative carbon finance scheme. The 14 developing countries include six in Africa (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar); five in [...]
Research: Mitigating Climate Change By Improving Forest Management In The Tropics
Posted in asia, recent research on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Putz et al. Improved Tropical Forest Management for Carbon Retention. PLoS Biology, 2008; 6 (7): e166 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060166
A key aspect of the international climate change agreement slated to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 focuses on reducing carbon emissions due to deforestation and degradation (REDD). But most REDD discussions focus on tropical deforestation while ignoring [...]
News: Analysis Indonesia – balancing coal and forests
Posted in asia, assessment, carbon trading on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indonesia aims to balance coal and forests
Reuters | 7 July 2008
FRANCE: Indonesia, the world’s number one coal exporter and a major greenhouse gas emitter, is struggling with conflicting green and growth aims. The world’s fourth-most populous country, with 226 million people spread across 17,500 islands, needs a substantial growth in electricity production to fuel economic [...]
